Comedy Clash: Kimmel, Trump, FCC in Roast Row

0:00On April 29th, Jimmy Kimmel caught heat for a joke about Melania Trump looking like an expectant widow during his fake White House correspondence. Dinner bit last Thursday, comedian Adam Corolla jumped in to defend him, calling it a standard roast trope about younger wives with older husbands. This blew up right before an assassination attempt at the real dinner on Saturday. Corolla stressed on his show that the joke came first, totally unrelated to the incident, and is the kind you'd hear at any celebrity roast, even if Trump wasn't president. He dismissed gripes about writers versus the host delivering it, saying it's just comedy business as usual. Donald and Melania Trump demanded Kimmel get fired from his ABC show, with Trump blasting it on true social as a call to violence. Kimmel clapped back on Monday's episode without apologizing, joking about waking up to a first lady demanding his job. Now the Federal Communications Commission kicked off for a view of Disney's broadcast licenses over the backlash. Disney says they're solid under the First Amendment and ready to fight it legally,

1:03while this echoes Kimmel's past flap after comments on a Charlie. Kurt shooting that got his show yanked briefly last September. All eyes are on how this comedy clash plays out amid the political heat, but for now, Corolla's got Kimmel's back in the roast game. That's your update from Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI. I'm Corey, with the story.